Abstract
This study examines the most efficient method of sampling content from five years of daily newspaper editions. Selecting nine constructed weeks (nine issues from a Monday, nine from a Tuesday, etc.) from five years is more efficient than the ten constructed weeks—two from each year—suggested by previous research on populations of a year's newspaper content. This rule holds provided the variables being measured do not have large variances.
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